Firefox OS/UX
Team members, locations, roles and areas of focus: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gaia/UXTeam
This wiki is not the best resource for Firefox OS design documentation, UX specs and patterns, and so on. For that, please visit the Design section on the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) site.
This page contains describes the major efforts the Firefox OS UX team is currently working on. Please contact Stephany Wilkes or Jaime Chen with any questions you may have.
Latest Specs + Wireframes
- Firefox OS 1.2
- Firefox OS 1.3
- Firefox OS 1.4
- Firefox OS 2.0
- Firefox OS 2.1
- Firefox OS 2.2
- Canonical spec for Arabic support in 2.2.
- Firefox OS 2.5
- Firefox OS 2.6
Important Dates
- 2014-11-24: Sprint 1 of 2.2 begins (on Gecko 37, which will be on m-c and gaia master)
- 2014-12-01 to 12-05: Portland Work Week
- 2015-02-23: 2.2 Feature Landing (Gecko 38, base for FxOS 2.2 will be on mozilla-aurora and gaia v2.2 branch)
- 2015-03-09: L10N String Freeze (tentative)
- 2015-04-06: 2.2 Feature Complete (Gecko 38 moves to mozilla-beta and mozilla-b2g38_v2_2 is created)
- 2015-05-18: 2.2 Code Complete
Bidirectional Language Support
The Firefox OS UX team is working hard to ensure the correct display of bidirectional languages like Arabic, Pashto, Urdu, Persian and Hebrew. Our 2.2 release will have interface support for Arabic and other bidirectional languages will follow in 2.3 and later.
Arabic
- Arabic language UX pattern and specification
- Meta bug for bidi language support: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=gaia-rtl
Web Components
Building Blocks reflect OS-wide UX patterns and styles, and will take the form of Web Components as of 2.3. Building Blocks + Web Components = "Common Controls" in Mozilla parlance.
- 2.3 (beginning April 2015) Common Controls reference document: https://mozilla.box.com/s/aa8tu5rf5gwpgdr00u79
UX Most Wanted
- Summary: These come from our usability studies, UX team member audits, customer support requests, and so on.
- Meta bug: (bug-994991)
Bugzilla query error
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Papercuts
- Summary: There are various little things that make it difficult for a Firefox OS phone to be a daily-use phone. The little things add up to big experience.
- Meta bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=949551
Bugzilla query error
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